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[syn: builder, constructor]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Constructor \Con*struct"or\, n. [Cf. LL. constructor.]
A constructer.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
constructor
n 1: someone who contracts for and supervises construction (as
of a building) [syn: builder, constructor]
The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (30 December 2018):
constructor
1. In object-oriented languages, a function
provided by a class to initialise a newly created object. The
constructor function typically has the same name as the class. It
may take arguments, e.g. to set various attributes of the object
or it may just leave everything undefined to be set elsewhere.
A class may also have a destructor function that is called when
objects of the class are destroyed.
2. In functional programming and type theory, one of the
symbols used to create an object with an algebraic data type.
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